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1. Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market.

Author

Annelies Boerema, Alain Peeters, Sanne Swolfs, Floor Vandevenne, Sander Jacobs, Jan Staes, and Patrick Meire

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

The trade in soybean, an important animal feed product, exemplifies the environmental and socio-economic impact of global markets and global agricultural policy. This paper analyses the impact of increasing production of soybean in the exporting countries (deforestation and grassland conversion) as well as in importing regions (decrease in permanent grassland by substitution of grass as feed). Ecosystem services monetary values were used to calculate the environmental and socio-economic impact of observed land use changes. This is balanced against the economic value of the global soybean trade. The results prove that consumption choices in one region have real effects on the supply of ecosystem services at a large spatial scale. Conclusively, solutions to make this global market more sustainable are discussed.

Published
2016
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2. Soybean trade : balancing environmental and socio-economic impacts of an intercontinental market

Author

Sander Jacobs, Annelies Boerema, Floor Vandevenne, Jan Staes, Sanne Swolfs, Patrick Meire, and Alain Peeters

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Swine, lcsh:Medicine, Social Sciences, Plant Science, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, Agricultural economics, Ecosystem services, Animal Products, Land Use, Medicine and Health Sciences, Economics, lcsh:Science, Mammals, Multidisciplinary, Ecology, Geography, Agriculture, Ruminants, Terrestrial Environments, Grassland, Europe, Product (business), Policy, Grasslands, Vertebrates, Engineering sciences. Technology, Brazil, Research Article, Conservation of Natural Resources, Meat, Livestock, Forest Ecology, Argentina, Crops, Environment, Human Geography, Ecosystems, Bovines, Deforestation, Animals, Humans, Agricultural policy, Production (economics), Society, Plant Communities, Ecosystem, Nutrition, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Consumption (economics), Land use, business.industry, Plant Ecology, lcsh:R, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Organisms, Biology and Life Sciences, Diet, Socioeconomic Factors, Food, Amniotes, Earth Sciences, lcsh:Q, Cattle, Soybeans, Soybean, business, Crop Science
Abstract

The trade in soybean, an important animal feed product, exemplifies the environmental and socio-economic impact of global markets and global agricultural policy. This paper analyses the impact of increasing production of soybean in the exporting countries (deforestation and grassland conversion) as well as in importing regions (decrease in permanent grassland by substitution of grass as feed). Ecosystem services monetary values were used to calculate the environmental and socio-economic impact of observed land use changes. This is balanced against the economic value of the global soybean trade. The results prove that consumption choices in one region have real effects on the supply of ecosystem services at a large spatial scale. Conclusively, solutions to make this global market more sustainable are discussed.

Published
2016

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